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Adaptavist Group • Remote (USA)

Senior Contracts & Legal Manager

Employment type:  Full time

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top 3 scores:
97%

Location flexibility

91%

Hours flexibility

91%

Role modelling

Job Description

Working at The Adaptavist Group
The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.
We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, Monday.com and Aha!
We make change happen. From anywhere.
Our flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.
Some of our benefits include:
- Unlimited vacation - 401k - Adaptavist matches up to 4%- Flexible working- Udemy online learning- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave- Employee assistance programme- Volunteer days- Healthcare through Trinet including Medical, Dental, Vision, EAP- Free online streaming service subscription

About the role
As a Senior Contracts & Legal Manager, you'll be responsible for driving business within our Contracts and Legal Operations (known as the Commercial Operations) group. You will manage day to day activities regarding contract review, negotiation and management, liaising with various business entities, clients, subcontractors and suppliers. You'll be expected to lead engagements in the US and Canada, but also support engagements that may be conducted in other geographies. This role will see you accept accountability for legal contracts and advise the Team Lead and Head of Commercial Operations on unusual and exceptional legal requirements.
The Commercial Operations team is focused on enabling organic and inorganic growth through contract management and negotiations, compliance management, management of legal and related services and operations, and management and mitigation of risks for the company. As a Senior Commercial and Legal Manager on the team, you will work closely with all parts of the business in this regard – including executive management, sales, professional and client services, IT and security, finance, marketing, facilities, and product development. You will be responsible for conducting various activities that help the broader Commercial Operations group in its work, supporting and facilitating the work of the team through a strong process driven orientation.

What you'll be doing

  • Reviewing and redlining of contracts, including resolution of challenges and queries from counterparties (such as clients).
  • Independently negotiating legal terms of a broad range of standard commercial contracts (NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, software purchasing agreements, etc.)
  • Signature of contracts of significant size, with recommendations to Team Lead and Head of Commercial Operations
  • Managing information related to contracts (clients, partners, suppliers), and within internal contractual IT systems. Knowledge management and enforcement of process.
  • Working with process specialists (Legal Operations Managers) who manage IT systems, process, internal corporate change programs, and knowledge repositories (i.e. document repositories, FAQs, and wikis) associated with contracts and legal support.
  • Providing “peer reviews” of departmental contract redlines, and requesting such peer reviews to support a robust, quality-driven process.
  • Reviewing documentation that forms part of various strategic sales, partnerships, or acquisitions.
  • Balancing risk mitigation with Adaptavist’s global strategy and priorities.
  • Working collaboratively to provide continuous improvement of cross-team training, playbooks, contract templates, and legal processes.

What we're looking for

  • Exposure to contracts, particularly in sales and procurement environment, from pre-sales to contract closeout.
  • Ability to confidently lead and fully execute contract engagement with a client (or potentially supplier or partner), and on some occasions provide related advisory to or collaborate with executive level colleagues in Adaptavist.
  • Experience and understanding of analyzing business processes for efficiencies.
  • Ability to critically assess transactions and identify business issues.
  • Use of enterprise software tools (examples might include Jira, Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Sheets, HubSpot, etc). Solid mechanical and analytical ability, and ability to break down problems.
  • Willing to learn, take on new challenges, and resolve them methodically.
  • Ability to work individually or across potentially geographically distributed teams. Exposure to working across multiple countries and time zones is a plus.
  • Friendly and approachable – excellent interpersonal skills with international and cross-cultural experience.
  • A quick and efficient learner with strong forensic attention to detail.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English).
  • Demonstrate the ability to work with deadlines and under pressure.
  • An ability to think innovatively and creatively.
  • Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
  • Strong sense of character, honesty, and teamwork.
  • Exposure to both legal and contract work in an operational context.
  • We have a couple of desirable skills but don't worry about applying if you don't have these: experience in addressing contractual issues in cloud, data security, privacy, and intellectual property matters; experience with third-party software resale, SaaS, cloud computing, and software sales; a familiarity with Atlassian products and related services; any experience with contract negotiation and regulatory requirements for US Federal or State clients.

#LI-JO1
At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status. From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us.
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We look forward to your application!

Company benefits

Unlimited annual leave
Flexible working week
Open to compressed hours
Open to part time work for some roles
Dog friendly office
Health insurance – BUPA
Life assurance
Work from anywhere scheme
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Share options
Employee discounts
Charity donation scheme

We asked employees of Adaptavist Group what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
97%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
91%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
78%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
86%
Employees feel that they can find the perfect balance of life and work
Role modelling
91%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
89%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
78%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
81%
Employees feel like the company culture is brilliantly inclusive and equitable
Culture
86%
Employees feel like it is a really great environment to work in
Mission
76%
Employees feel quite excited about the company mission
Salary
73%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Adaptavist Group

Company employees

1100

Gender diversity (male:female)

60:40

Office locations

Global offices across UK, Europe, North America and Malaysia

Hiring Countries

Australia

Canada

Croatia

Germany

Greece

Italy

Malaysia

South Africa

Spain

Switzerland

Türkiye

United Kingdom

United States

Awards & Achievements

1st – Medium companies

1st – Medium companies

Flexa100 2024
SaaS & Software

SaaS & Software

Industry awards 2023

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